From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A1CF138334 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64084E08F9; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 132CFE08DA for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:47:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr1-f52.google.com (mail-wr1-f52.google.com [209.85.221.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: djc) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8521E335C39 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr1-f52.google.com with SMTP id z14-v6so1845786wrs.10 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:47:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfohavi0VhH8dTAEymb9RPUAPmG3/MzL2CgE4EhdLzu4ndPLELjNX ix27I0TmXtbmAeiwHDQpjlf4qdqgDPVFibRIY0w= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV63vCG/jf6r0cJz/wCLvg7kCYYhVnqFL+7eVTBAypnfr/BTTfzJ7WqHiN3wG865gumPSh/urJkF3UIgmyv/bzlc= X-Received: by 2002:adf:a626:: with SMTP id k35-v6mr7962418wrc.109.1537789634494; Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1537735339.14608.7.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1537735339.14608.7.camel@gentoo.org> From: Dirkjan Ochtman Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:47:02 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing support for mercurial repos in repositories.xml To: Gentoo Development Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000e74d5d05769c8c9b" X-Archives-Salt: f2c54d64-f7eb-4111-9581-288446efdd97 X-Archives-Hash: afc6212e2beae554433fe22f16ddee77 --000000000000e74d5d05769c8c9b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:42 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > 2. Mercurial is buggy and maintaining support for those repos is PITA. > As a former Mercurial maintainer, I'm very skeptical of claims that Mercurial is that buggy or generally less well-maintained than Git. Still, reality is that Gentoo is mostly focused on Git (and Mercurial use is relatively limited in the broader free software community), so I could see it makes sense to focus our resources on Git. Regards, Dirkjan --000000000000e74d5d05769c8c9b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:42 PM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny &l= t;mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
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2. Mercurial is buggy and maintaining support for those repos is PITA.
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As a former Mercurial maintainer, I'm v= ery skeptical of claims that Mercurial is that buggy or generally less well= -maintained than Git. Still, reality is that Gentoo is mostly focused on Gi= t (and Mercurial use is relatively limited in the broader free software com= munity), so I could see it makes sense to focus our resources on Git.
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Regards,

Dirkjan
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